Thai Park

Several friends had posted on Facebook about going to Thai Park.  I had no idea what to expect but I did know it was some random park in Berlin where a bunch of Thai people came to sell their homemade Thai food.  I love Thai food!!  So I read up on it and then convinced the family to trek across town on a hot Sunday to make our first visit.
I was amazed.  It was like the best street food congregation ever.  It felt a bit like I was in Mexico and probably a lot like in Thailand, although I've never been there before.  There were several long rows of people selling their homemade food. 

There were clearly more popular vendors and then not so popular vendors.  I knew it probably made sense to buy from the popular vendors.  So we stood in line and bought a huge plate of steaming pad thai or something equivalent.  Vegetarian with a fried egg

cooked up right in front of us.  There was a little condiment bar so we topped it with freshly cut green onions, lime juice and cilantro.  Yum!!
Benjamin chose a few chicken satays in

peanut sauce.  Those were good too.  Josie and I just kept going back.  We would look around and then just buy something randomly.  Each and everything we bought was so SO good!!  Mouthwateringly good.  I was shocked at how excited Josie was to try everything.  Marty loved it but doesn't necessarily like street food.  Benjamin mostly played at a very huge and cool playground that was in the park and filled with kids.  This park had a water feature and he could have stayed there for hours creating dams and diverting the flow of water. 
The story goes that many years ago (maybe 10 or 15?) a lot of Thai people would come to this park and bring along their Sunday picnics.  They would often grill fresh food or cook other items over open fires.  The other park goers started asking the Thai people if they could purchase their food.  The Thai people came together and decided to sell their food there every weekend.  The legend is you know when summer really has arrived when Thai Park opens for the season.  This year it was late April.  And apparently it will run through September sometime.  Oh and nothing we bought was over 5 Euro.  We all left full and satisfied.  We will definitely be back.